He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington

To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.